housing and homelessness

Solutions in Bristol

Big ideas of what a good ‘new normal’ could look like after coronavirus

As part of the Cable’s solutions series, we look at some problems facing the city, and ambitious but achievable ways to address them.

Adam Cantwell-Corn Fatima Hudoon
Adam Cantwell-Corn and Fatima Hudoon

Features

Lockdown gave a safety net for Bristol’s hidden homeless… But many remain on the street this time round

Bristol's response to the Everyone In scheme offered a lifeline to people with no recourse to public funds (NRPF), but those who have become homeless since the first lockdown haven't had the safety net this time around, despite calls from homelessness charities to provide for rough sleepers.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Reports

Locals call for answers on fuel leak at St Pauls development site

Photos: Save the M32 Maples Developers have started to build 31 homes on the site of a former filling station in central Bristol from which...

James Garrett and Howard Ogden

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Neil Maggs

Listen: Bristol Unpacked with Paul Smith, the council’s housing boss, and how a socialist can be ‘credible’ with developers

The famously humorous Hartcliffe local was a city councillor in the 1990s, and then getting re-elected in 2016, bringing professional experience to the role of...

Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media Rosa Eaton Adam Cantwell-Corn
Neil Maggs / Maggs Smart Media, Rosa Eaton and Adam Cantwell-Corn

Offshore in Bristol

The Bristol property secretly owned by the controversial governor of the Bank of Lebanon

Investigation finds that Lebanon's Governor siphoned millions abroad, including into Bristol.

Alon Aviram
Alon Aviram

City

Council approves major new development plans in Lawrence Hill

The Council approves the building of hundreds of new homes, offices, shops, student accommodation and a new school in Lawrence Hill. But flooding objections from the Environment Agency could override the decision.

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

City

Developer withdraws planning proposals for ‘grim’ and ‘Stalinist’ St Pauls flats

Controversial plans for a four-storey block of flats in St Pauls have been withdrawn. The boss of developers Clayewater Homes says they spent “a lot...

Adam Postans (Local Democracy Reporter)

Reports

Van dwellers resist eviction on Glenfrome Road

‘Intimidating’ bailiffs left the site without removing any vehicles.

Jess Connett
Jess Connett

Coronavirus in Bristol

Council forced to find alternative for rough sleepers as government scraps scheme

Homeless people in Bristol will be moved out of hotels, where they’d been placed to self-isolate, and into whatever housing the council can lay its...

Amanda Cameron (Local Democracy Reporter)

Opinion

‘Covid-19 is creating a housing crisis in Bristol’ – A lettings agent on how to avert it

Tenants don’t need to be lumped with rent arrears and landlords can still get their rent in the long run, writes Bristol lettings agent Boris Drappier.

Boris Drappier

Scrutinising institutions

You can’t stay home and safe when you’re sleeping rough

As Bristol Homelessness Action week comes to a close, we find out why people are still on the street almost two months after lockdown started. And ask: How might the pandemic change Bristol’s homelessness provision for the better?

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers

Coronavirus in Bristol

Rough sleepers of Bristol and the search for a safe place amid coronavirus

Bristol City Council is trying to find 450 rooms to house everyone rough sleeping and in temporary accommodation so they can self-isolate during coronavirus.

Hannah Vickers
Hannah Vickers
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